Category: News

It is opening day for Camp Celebrate 2013. The campers have been in line since before 1 PM Friday, May 17th to register for another exciting experience at Camp Kanata. Registration is done, the campers, all burn survivors, and the fire trucks are ready to roll. Look it is our...

Dr. Samuel Jones, North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center, was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Burn Care and Research in April 2013. Congratulations Dr. Jones!

North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center Fellow, Shiara Ortiz-Pujols, MD, is a newly elected Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) member. The AOA was founded in 1902. The society’s mission is to be dedicated to the belief that in the profession of medicine we will improve care for all by: recognizing high educational...

    On Thursday, April 18, 2013 the Duke Energy Family Room was dedicated at the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center. Duke Energy has supported and partnered with the Burn Center from its beginning in 1981. Renovation of the Family Room was supported by a gift of $300,00 from Duke...

Laurel Kartchner, graduate student in the burn lab, received a National Science Foundation grant to develop a bioluminescent Pseudomonas bacterium that the lab can use in real time to track and quantify infection after burn. Congratulations Laurel!

Dr. Bruce Cairns, Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Surgery, invited Chancellor Holden Thorp to present Surgery Research Grand Rounds on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Chancellor Thorp presented a well attended presentation entitled “Rational Re-Design of Cytochrome P450 Antagonists: Safer Drugs for Prostate Cancer and Anti-Fungal Indications”. A...

Dr. Amal Khoury and Dr. Anthony Charles received $2k funding of their TraCS application titled “Immune Modulation by Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)”. Congratulations!

On Friday, February 22, 2013 Crystal J. Neely defended her thesis and received her PhD from the Department of Surgery North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. This was the first PhD student in the area of burn research. Dr. Neely then presented a portion...

On Monday, February 18, 2013 the Mecklenburg Chapter of the Fire Fighter’s Burned Children’s Fund came to Chapel Hill to tour the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center. During the visit they presented the Burn Center with supplies for the Family Room and for patients in the unit. They are dedicated...

Ernest Grant, RN has been reappointed Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing. Adjunct faculty members are extremely important to the University of North Carolina for their work with faculty and students. Congratulations on your reappointment!